"The story depicts everyday struggles in Goma through the eyes of a child. Prominent Congolese artists such as Barly Baruti, Fifi Mukuna and Papa Mfumu'Eto, who captured the public's imagination in comic strips in the past, mainly worked abroad or in Kinshasa, a city more than a thousand miles from Goma. But there are few contemporary comics set in or about the Democratic Republic of the Congo written by Congolese artists."
"I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil, Musavuli says of his journey as an artist. He began to pursue the craft seriously only after finishing high school, enrolling at the Africa Digital Media Institute in Nairobi. His studies, however, were cut short by financial difficulties. Art gives hope. It's something to start with Edizon Musavuli His first solo exhibition was in January 2020, organised with the French Institute of Goma."
A comic follows Baraka, a young boy in Goma who encounters bandits and returns to a household marked by silence and scarcity. Radio crackles punctuate daily life while the boy finds no hope looking across Lake Kivu toward Bukavu and Rwanda. The comic offers a child's view of everyday struggles in eastern DRC. Creator Edizon Musavuli studied at the Africa Digital Media Institute in Nairobi but left due to financial constraints. His January 2020 solo exhibition with the French Institute of Goma drew strong response. The resurgence of the M23 militia later destabilized Goma's fragile art scene, and few contemporary comics about the DRC are made by Congolese artists.
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